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Music · vrije geluiden · 2010Singing Oum Kalthoum
5 min
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A song from Qadheet Hayati, words by Ahmad Rami and music by Riadh al-Sunbati.

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Sufi Poetry in Song

Ghalia Benali

Tunisian-Belgian singer, born in Brussels in 1968 and raised partly in Zarzis on the Tunisian coast. She sings centuries-old Sufi poetry, among it the verses of the eighth-century mystic Rabia al-Adawiyya, alongside contemporary Arabic writing.

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